Colonial Secretary's Office,
Wellington, 23rd September, 1868.

IT is hereby notified that, in conformity with clause three of "The Otago Municipal Corporations Act 1865," the name of the following person has been sent to this office by the Town Clerk, as having been elected Mayor of West Hawksbury:—

JOHN SMITH, Esquire.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

WHEREAS by "The Otago Municipal Corporations Empowering Act 1865," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint the person elected to be Mayor of any city or incorporated town as therein mentioned to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony, provided that in every such case such appointment shall continue no longer than the mayoralty of such person: And whereas John Smith, Esquire, has been elected Mayor of the Corporation of West Hawksbury:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance and in exercise of the power and authority vested in me in that behalf, do hereby appoint the said

JOHN SMITH, Esq.,

to be a Justice of the Peace for the Colony of New Zealand.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir George Ferguson Bowen, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority in this behalf enabling me, I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, do hereby fix and appoint that sittings of the District Court of the Otago Gold Fields, additional to those already appointed, shall be held as follows:—

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Lawrence, on the second Tuesday in December next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Naseby, on the second Wednesday in January next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Clyde, on the Monday next after the second Wednesday in January next.

In the Resident Magistrate’s Court at Queenstown, on the Monday second after the second Wednesday in January next.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this sixteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

E. W. STAFFORD.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-third day of September, 1868.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by "The Supreme Court Judges Act 1858," it is enacted that the Commission of the present Chief Justice, and of every Chief Justice and other Judge of the said Court to be thereafter appointed (except as thereinafter provided), should be and continue in full force during their good behaviour,

and that it should be lawful for the Governor in Council in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, at any time during the illness or absence of a Judge so appointed as aforesaid, or for any other temporary purpose, to appoint a Judge or Judges of the Supreme Court, to hold office during His Excellency’s pleasure:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of New Zealand, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, doth hereby appoint

CHARLES DUDLEY ROBERT WARD, Esq.,

from and after the first day of October, to be a Judge of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. To hold office during his Excellency’s pleasure.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

From the New Zealand Gazette, October 2, 1863, No. 57.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS by "The Resident Magistrates Act 1867," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time, by Proclamation in the New Zealand Gazette, to constitute throughout the Colony, or in any part thereof, districts to be called Resident Magistrates’ Districts, and such districts from time to time to abolish and the boundaries to define and alter, and in any such Proclamation to fix a time on and from which any such district shall be constituted or abolished as the case may be: And whereas by a Proclamation bearing date the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, published in the New Zealand Gazette on the twenty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities for that purpose vested in him, did proclaim and declare the districts described in the Schedule to the said Proclamation, including amongst other districts the district of Clutha, and the district of Southland, to be, on and from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, Resident Magistrates’ Districts within the meaning of the said Act:

And whereas it is expedient to define and alter the boundaries of the respective Districts of Clutha and of Southland in manner hereinafter appearing:

Now therefore I, Sir George Ferguson Bowen, the Governor of New Zealand, in pursuance of the powers and authorities for that purpose vested in me, do hereby proclaim and declare that the boundaries of the said Districts of Clutha and of Southland, as the same are defined and described in the Schedule hereto, shall, from and after the first day of November, be the boundaries of the Districts of Clutha and of Southland, within the meaning and for the purposes of "The Resident Magistrates’ Act 1867," and I do hereby, from the date aforesaid, define and alter the boundaries of the said districts accordingly.

SCHEDULE.

Clutha District.

This district is bounded towards the North-east by the South-western boundary of the Dunedin District; towards the South-east and South by the sea from the mouth of the Taieri River to Chasland’s Mistake; thence towards the West by a straight line to the summit of Black Horn Hill, thence by the summit of the range leading to Bleak Hill, thence by a straight line to the summit of the Cairn Hill, thence by a straight line to the source of the Kaiwera Creek, and by that creek to the Main South Road, thence by the eastern watershed of the Wakaka River to the summit of the Black Umbrella Mount; and towards the North by the Southern boundary of the Otago Gold Fields District, as the said districts are defined in Proclamation dated the twenty-ninth day of November, one thousand eight